First Generation Ascots > The Thumper Years: Modified To Full Customs
Dutch FT project
FT500R:
just got word from the guy who made my spacers!
he also made my day :D
the shocks are 37 cm long (center eye to center eye) so about 14,6 inches
this was a rough measurement though.
looking forward to your topic patrick4wd!
FT500R:
i've test fitted the spacers and bushings.
Looks good!:
ofcourse I couldn't resist to put the wheel in the front forks.
Fortunately the caliper runs free from the spokes (forgot to measure)
One of the claws hits the claw mount on the forks while the other one fits behind it. I can try to solve this by making the right bushing a bit smaller or I'll solve it with the adapter plates for the claws which I'll have to make anyway.
Any tips on cleaning a spoked wheel? tried with WD40 and some sanding linnen but that doesn't sort the wanted effect.
thumb:
spent quite a few hours over the years cleaning rusty spokes and lacquering them ,only for them to rust up with the year again
Have a look at these on the Evil bay search "spoke skins"
triguyracer:
steal wool works good,I have 3 of the xs650 wheels and forks with alloy triple clamps that I use on my vintage dirt trackers.A drill with a fine wire wheel works good also,1000 or 2000 grit sandpaper works, a bit of grunt work but will work well
FT500R:
I've made some time this weekend to work on the little thumper:
First I swapped the original head bearings with conical ones
The conical head bearings for a FT fit nicely on the Fireblade stem. It's incredible how easy a set fireblade forks can be fitted this way.
Together with the fireblade forks, the XS650 wheel, FZR1000 discs and Multistrada calipers my frankenstein bike looks like this:
I have to fabricate some adapters for the calipers to fit to the forks.
The next day I test-fitted the BMW F650 rear wheel
I've also removed the rear to see what I would want to change:
I'm still in doubt about the BMW rear wheel.
The hub is quite wide, this gives some issues with chain allignment. It also rubs on the brake caliper mount (easy grinder fix though)
Both the rear sprocket and the brakedisc are a different diameter as the stock FT so that might give some issues aswell.
I'm also thinking that a 18 inch wheel might look a bit better...
Does anyone know a bike with a 18 inch spoked rear wheel with discbrakes? preferably honda because those are like lego's :D
cheers Paul
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